Max Braun
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Braun is a multidisciplinary engineer and inventor with 15 years of experience building AI, robotics, augmented reality, wearables, and smart-home systems across startups and major labs. He co-founded startups that were acquired, led engineering teams at Google and Everyday Robots, and now works as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, blending research-grade foundation-model work with product-focused engineering. His background spans academic research in Europe and Japan, hands-on robotics at scale, and founding-stage engineering—unusual depth from detector cabling at CERN to launching robot fleets. An active tinkerer and designer, he also explores AI, language, and philosophy as a teacher and writer, and has built playful open-source projects such as a tweet-driven trading bot that demonstrates his appetite for unconventional experimentation.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Robotics, Robotics at The University of OsakaPhysics, Physics at Heidelberg UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Koblenz and Landau
Japanese, Spanish, French, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
apim10
api-rest10
twitter10
python10
apidoc10
api-design10
trading10
restful-api10
bots10
api10
googlebot10
rest-api10
testing9
oauth9
wikidata9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
maxbbraun/trump2cash
Jan 2017 - Jan 2022
A stock trading bot powered by Trump tweets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:203 commits, 2 PRs, 76 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:Max's primary contribution was the implementation of a trading bot, indicated by the initial dump and subsequent addition of features. This included the creation of the `analysis.py` and `trading.py` files, which implemented the core logic for analyzing Trump tweets, querying Wikidata for company information, and executing stock trades via the TradeKing API. The user also implemented tests and added support for command-line arguments and environment variables, suggesting the development of a functional trading system.
twitter-botstock-marketstock-tradingpythontrading-bot
maxbbraun/tdface-annotations
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 4 pushes in 9 months
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